2 Samuel 8:12

New English Translation

Footnotes

1. 2 Samuel 8:12 tn Heb “from.”
2. 2 Samuel 8:12 tc Heb “Aram.” A few Hebrew mss along with the LXX and Syriac read “Edom” (cf. 2 Sam 8:14 and 1 Chr 18:11). Aram and Edom are spelled similarly, the difference being a ד (dalet) vs. a ר (resh). Besides the textual witnesses, the geography in v. 13, the Valley of Salt, fits Edom and not Aram.
3. 2 Samuel 8:12 tn Heb “and from the plunder of.”